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<blockquote data-quote="Demetrios1453" data-source="post: 9335503" data-attributes="member: 6801060"><p><strong><em>Pool of Radiance </em>(Part 55): Valhingen Graveyard (Part 5)</strong></p><p></p><p>We pick back up at the start of the big wight fight.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361339[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, they're nicely bunched up, so time for Brin to work her magic...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361340[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>While she's casting, Buffy's turn comes up. Wights can't be damaged by non-magical weapons, and she doesn't have any spells, so she can either run up to the front line and risk getting hit and level-drained, or just sit there and do nothing. It sucks that magical ranged weapons don't transmit their magic-ness to their ammo.</p><p></p><p>Wait...</p><p></p><p>What if we had a magical ranged weapon that <em>didn't</em> have specified ammo?</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361341[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Slings don't have separate ammo in the game, so magic slings <em>can</em> directly damage creatures resistant to non-magical weapons. So we equip Buffy with the sling I had declared to be "useless" earlier, and she can merrily do damage safe behind the front line without any issues.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, Brin's spell is now ready to go off.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361342[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361343[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>What's with all these sub-par <em>fireballs</em>? Again, a 6d6 <em>fireball</em> should average 21 points of damage, and it seems we're usually below that.</p><p></p><p>As a result, all the wights are merely damaged and not outright killed.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361344[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, let's let Brother Baltor do his thing.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361345[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>He manages to turn precisely zero undead. Well, this fight has gotten off to a frustrating start.</p><p></p><p>Well, still being lined up, Bragir will bust out one of his wands again...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361346[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361347[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>He takes out the three directly in front of him, but some in the back move down to take their place.</p><p></p><p>Meanwhile, the melee have been damaging the ones nest to them, leaving a frustratingly high number of almost-but-not-quite-dead wights still hanging around.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361348[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Buffy is meanwhile picking them off with her newly-equipped sling.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361349[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>With her bow basically useless, Brin breaks out one of her wands...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361350[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And Bragir just switches out to his melee weapon.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361351[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361354[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Shortly thereafter, the last of the wights go down. Luckily, none of them landed a hit or caused a level drain!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361353[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>That many wights gave us quite an XP boost!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361355[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Now, let's see what those wights were guarding behind the door.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361356[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>There's a chance to take electric damage here, but everyone made their saves.</p><p></p><p>Up the steps we go...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361357[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Our third and final spectre. Once we take it out, the wight production will cease, as will production of new undead for the entire graveyard!</p><p></p><p>Since we caught it by surprise, it goes down as quickly as the previous two. Yet another kill for Buffy with her sling!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361358[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361359[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Our spectre must have some decent treasure for that much XP!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361360[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>It's just money, but XP is still XP.</p><p></p><p>Now that the spectres have been removed, the main thing we need to do here is to find and defeat the master of all the undead in the graveyard. And the dragon we met in the mountains already told us its identity: a vampire!</p><p></p><p>Leaving the spectre building, we head to the west and approach yet another large building. As we head towards its door...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361361[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361362[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Two spectres at a distance. We should do as much damage as possible before they can attack and reach us.</p><p></p><p>Well, since they're neatly lined up...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361363[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361364[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>(Finally got a good action shot of the lightning moving towards some foes!)</p><p></p><p>The lightning did some pretty decent damage.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361365[/ATTACH]</p><p>Brin will fire some <em>magic missiles </em>towards them.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361366[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361367[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>And that one goes down.</p><p></p><p>Baroness Bella moves up, and takes out the second one.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361368[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>With that danger past, we go into the door they were guarding.</p><p></p><p>After heading through a couple doors and stairwells, we reach a room with yet another sarcophagus...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361369[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361370[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Well, that was certainly nice of it. Not only did the party not have to fight some sort of hideous undead, it politely lays its treasure at our feet!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361372[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Definitely looks like some good gear. Other than the multiple <em>restoration</em> scrolls that we already have clogging our inventory.</p><p></p><p>(As you can see, this would match a paladin's treasure much more than the one in the previous post, so as I said there, it's been theorized that this treasure should have been over there. It's not a huge problem since it appears only a short time afterwards anyway).</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361373[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Another <em>ring of fire resistance </em>is always nice, as is magical plate. Brother Baltor will get both of those. As for the longsword and the shield, they won't be upgrades for anyone, so we'll put them aside to sell later.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361375[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Brother Baltor trades his magical banded mail down to Bragir.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361376[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Some ACs have gone down nicely as a result!</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361377[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>We head out of this building to the northeastern corner of the graveyard. The first structure we explore is a huge cruciform building...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361378[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Not ominous in the least.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361379[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Sure.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361380[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361381[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH=full]361382[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>So this vampire was here before, and banished previously by adventurers. I guess it wasn't fully destroyed and eventually came back. For us to deal with, of course...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361383[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Let's see what our options are...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361384[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Let's examine it first...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361385[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Why would they even give us the option to do so with that being the outcome? OK, let's sanctify it.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]361386[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>Hopefully this will make things uncomfortable for our vampire friend should he need to return to his coffin.</p><p></p><p>This done, we head out of this building and continue our search. I'll pick up here in the next post.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Demetrios1453, post: 9335503, member: 6801060"] [B][I]Pool of Radiance [/I](Part 55): Valhingen Graveyard (Part 5)[/B] We pick back up at the start of the big wight fight. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212725.png"]361339[/ATTACH] Well, they're nicely bunched up, so time for Brin to work her magic... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212739.png"]361340[/ATTACH] While she's casting, Buffy's turn comes up. Wights can't be damaged by non-magical weapons, and she doesn't have any spells, so she can either run up to the front line and risk getting hit and level-drained, or just sit there and do nothing. It sucks that magical ranged weapons don't transmit their magic-ness to their ammo. Wait... What if we had a magical ranged weapon that [I]didn't[/I] have specified ammo? [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212803.png"]361341[/ATTACH] Slings don't have separate ammo in the game, so magic slings [I]can[/I] directly damage creatures resistant to non-magical weapons. So we equip Buffy with the sling I had declared to be "useless" earlier, and she can merrily do damage safe behind the front line without any issues. Meanwhile, Brin's spell is now ready to go off. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212833.png"]361342[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212846.png"]361343[/ATTACH] What's with all these sub-par [I]fireballs[/I]? Again, a 6d6 [I]fireball[/I] should average 21 points of damage, and it seems we're usually below that. As a result, all the wights are merely damaged and not outright killed. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212859.png"]361344[/ATTACH] Well, let's let Brother Baltor do his thing. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 212904.png"]361345[/ATTACH] He manages to turn precisely zero undead. Well, this fight has gotten off to a frustrating start. Well, still being lined up, Bragir will bust out one of his wands again... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213008.png"]361346[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213017.png"]361347[/ATTACH] He takes out the three directly in front of him, but some in the back move down to take their place. Meanwhile, the melee have been damaging the ones nest to them, leaving a frustratingly high number of almost-but-not-quite-dead wights still hanging around. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213042.png"]361348[/ATTACH] Buffy is meanwhile picking them off with her newly-equipped sling. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213111.png"]361349[/ATTACH] With her bow basically useless, Brin breaks out one of her wands... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213142.png"]361350[/ATTACH] And Bragir just switches out to his melee weapon. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213206.png"]361351[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213218.png"]361354[/ATTACH] Shortly thereafter, the last of the wights go down. Luckily, none of them landed a hit or caused a level drain! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213259.png"]361353[/ATTACH] That many wights gave us quite an XP boost! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213347.png"]361355[/ATTACH] Now, let's see what those wights were guarding behind the door. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213425.png"]361356[/ATTACH] There's a chance to take electric damage here, but everyone made their saves. Up the steps we go... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213502.png"]361357[/ATTACH] Our third and final spectre. Once we take it out, the wight production will cease, as will production of new undead for the entire graveyard! Since we caught it by surprise, it goes down as quickly as the previous two. Yet another kill for Buffy with her sling! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213541.png"]361358[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213558.png"]361359[/ATTACH] Our spectre must have some decent treasure for that much XP! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 213608.png"]361360[/ATTACH] It's just money, but XP is still XP. Now that the spectres have been removed, the main thing we need to do here is to find and defeat the master of all the undead in the graveyard. And the dragon we met in the mountains already told us its identity: a vampire! Leaving the spectre building, we head to the west and approach yet another large building. As we head towards its door... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214154.png"]361361[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214212.png"]361362[/ATTACH] Two spectres at a distance. We should do as much damage as possible before they can attack and reach us. Well, since they're neatly lined up... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214549.png"]361363[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214616.png"]361364[/ATTACH] (Finally got a good action shot of the lightning moving towards some foes!) The lightning did some pretty decent damage. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214622.png"]361365[/ATTACH] Brin will fire some [I]magic missiles [/I]towards them. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214628.png"]361366[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214644.png"]361367[/ATTACH] And that one goes down. Baroness Bella moves up, and takes out the second one. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214655.png"]361368[/ATTACH] With that danger past, we go into the door they were guarding. After heading through a couple doors and stairwells, we reach a room with yet another sarcophagus... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 214739.png"]361369[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 215123.png"]361370[/ATTACH] Well, that was certainly nice of it. Not only did the party not have to fight some sort of hideous undead, it politely lays its treasure at our feet! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 215142.png"]361372[/ATTACH] Definitely looks like some good gear. Other than the multiple [I]restoration[/I] scrolls that we already have clogging our inventory. (As you can see, this would match a paladin's treasure much more than the one in the previous post, so as I said there, it's been theorized that this treasure should have been over there. It's not a huge problem since it appears only a short time afterwards anyway). [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 215216.png"]361373[/ATTACH] Another [I]ring of fire resistance [/I]is always nice, as is magical plate. Brother Baltor will get both of those. As for the longsword and the shield, they won't be upgrades for anyone, so we'll put them aside to sell later. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 215351.png"]361375[/ATTACH] Brother Baltor trades his magical banded mail down to Bragir. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 215547.png"]361376[/ATTACH] Some ACs have gone down nicely as a result! [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-01 215627.png"]361377[/ATTACH] We head out of this building to the northeastern corner of the graveyard. The first structure we explore is a huge cruciform building... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122525.png"]361378[/ATTACH] Not ominous in the least. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122551.png"]361379[/ATTACH] Sure. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122600.png"]361380[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122728.png"]361381[/ATTACH] [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122738.png"]361382[/ATTACH] So this vampire was here before, and banished previously by adventurers. I guess it wasn't fully destroyed and eventually came back. For us to deal with, of course... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122754.png"]361383[/ATTACH] Let's see what our options are... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122800.png"]361384[/ATTACH] Let's examine it first... [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122812.png"]361385[/ATTACH] Why would they even give us the option to do so with that being the outcome? OK, let's sanctify it. [ATTACH type="full" alt="Screenshot 2024-05-04 122903.png"]361386[/ATTACH] Hopefully this will make things uncomfortable for our vampire friend should he need to return to his coffin. This done, we head out of this building and continue our search. I'll pick up here in the next post. [/QUOTE]
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